I was a dismount for one patrol in which we escorted our CO and some civil affairs guys to a local school and a local water treatment plant to see how the projects were coming along, and then when we returned to the patrol base to switch out vehicles and personnel to escort the same folks back to the FOB, I ended up in a gun turret. It was so ( Read more... )

Wow, I have some big news ( Read more... )

Oh, and happy anniversary to the greatest wife ever, just in case she reads this!

I've been looking into law schools in case the FLEP thing works out, and so far the only ones I've found that allow Spring Semester starts are private schools, and FLEP only works with public schools. Ugh. I still need to get into the one remaining OCS class that would have me commissioned on time, and I'm working that as best I can, but it doesn't ( Read more... )

Leave was a blast. I'll summarize for now, and maybe come back later and go more in-depth about certain subjects ( Read more... )

The past few days (all 7 from the whole week, really) have been pretty hectic. We tried to get ahead with the work on our truck (which had nothing wrong with it from the get-go), but ended up having more truck-related crap piled on for the next day, every day. I'll sum up with this: we put at least 100 man-hours into that damned truck this week, ( Read more... )

I was so happy at the start of the day. I was left out of this stupid patrol taking around some old-ass agriculture professors from Texas A&M so I could study for the LSAT. When the people who WERE going got up at 6:30am, they made so much noise that I ended up waking up too, and I could not get back to sleep. This turned out to be a good thing ( Read more... )

Today, so far, is a great day compared to this previous (crappy) week. So far today, I've caught up on some missed sleep, as well as managed to do a good bit of studying, and I'm taking a break right now ( Read more... )

If you ever want to see 3rd-country nationals panic while they're working at a FOB PX, try to use a coupon. Sheesh, if I'd known the trouble it caused, I'd never have bothered. OK, so the 2 cashiers at their respective registers are from Africa (judging by their accents), and they've apparently never seen or heard of a coupon. I had one that I tore ( Read more... )

I'm sure mom will recognize the quote in this subject line ( Read more... )